Bedstead



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI NEWCOMB, JR., OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IBEDSTEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, LEVI NEwcoMB, J r., of New Bedford, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved EXtension-Bedstead; and I. do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1, is a side elevation, the lower bedstead being forced in and underneath the upper one. Fig. 2, is a side elevation the lower bedstead being extended or drawn out. Fig. 3, is a transverse vertical section taken at line X X, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures.

The nature of my invention consists in having two bedsteads connected together an upper and lower one and so arranged or connected that the lower bedstead will slide underneath the upper one, the lower bedstead has its foot posts surmounted by clamps which tit or work into recesses cut on each side of the rails of the upper bedstead; the rails of the lower bedstead pass through mortise holes in the lower part of the foot posts of the upper bedstead. By this arrangement the lower bedstead may be drawn out from underneath the upper one when desired for use, and when not in use may be shoved in or underneath the upper one the whole arrangement in this state occupying as little space as an ordinary bedstead.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct a bedstead on my improved plan, l will proceed more particularly to describe the manner in which it is constructed.

A, are the rails of the upper bedstead.

B are the head posts, C the foot posts.

The recess cut on each side of the rails A are represented by (a). D, are the rails of the lower bedstead.

E are the foot posts.

F are the head posts. (g) are the clamps which are placed on the upper part of the foot posts E. These clamps are formed of a strip of metal screwed on each side of the posts the upper part of the strips being 8,516, dated November 11, 1851.

bent inward so as to it in the recesses (af) they are plainly seen in Fig. 3; the rails, D, o f the lower bedstead pass through the mortise holes (Z9) in the foot posts, C, of the upper bedstead. These mortise holes are shown by dotted lines in Figs. l and 2.

It will thus be readily seen how the lower bedstead is attached to the upper one and by which attachment it may be made to slide underneath the upper one or be drawn out.

The foot posts, E, of the lower bedstead are flush with the lower surface of the rails, D, it not being necessary for them to reach the floor as the clamps (g) fitting in the recesses (a) support the lower end or foot of the lower bedstead.

The lower bedstead is intended for children the advantages of this arrangement over the ordinary cribs and trundle beds in use need scarcely be specified as they must appear plainly to every one; in large cities where rents are high and the laboring classes form a large portion of the population, with them economy in room is the principal object. Many laboring men with large families in cities do not occupy more than two rooms in a house. To them the advantages of this bedstead will be considerable for during the day the lowerbedstead is shoved underneath the upper one and they have the space free which is occupied at night.

I-Iaving thus described the nature of my invention and the manner in which it is constructed what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The manner of securing the lower bedstead to the upper one so that it may slide underneath the upper one or be drawn out from it as described, viz, by having the clamps (g) attached to the upper part of the foot posts E of the lower bedsteads, said clamps fitting in the recesses (a) of the.

rails A of the upper bedstead and the rails D of the lower bedstead passing through the mort-isc holes (ZJ) in the foot posts C of the upper bedstead substantially as shown and set forth.

LEVI NEVVCOMB, JR. lllitnesses TI-ros. D. ROBINSON, R. C. INGRAHAM. 

